Trading Outcry Intensifies

Firms Face More Calls to Cut
Ties With Censured Nations

By
Paulo Prada and
Betsy McKay

Updated March 27, 2007 11:59 pm ET

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American companies that do business with countries subjected to U.S. trade sanctions face increasing financial and political pressure to stop as tensions between Iran and the United Nations Security Council worsen.

As a result, many companies are severing connections -- or plan to when current...